September 23, 2021
Will the Sun Remember Our Shadows?:
A The Value of Poetic Questions in an Age of Loss
Visual Voices Lecture for George Mason University Center for the Arts
May 01, 2021
Jazz and the Gospel:
Bridge Projects, Los Angeles
From jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, the music of the Black church has influenced many musicians in the genre. Specifically for jazz, gospel music and its origins in the church bring influences, such as improvisation, into the experience of jazz music and immersion of sound and culture. Artists Ashon T. Crawley, Dario Robleto, Norman Teague, and Folayemi [Fo] Wilson all incorporate aspects of jazz in their work and will discuss the influence it has in their practice in this panel discussion.
Moderating the conversation will be historian Daniel E. Walker, an acclaimed historian, philanthropist, social entrepreneur, and entertainment industry leader.
April 26, 2021
Tending to the Body
The Spencer Museum of Art presents Tending to the Body, a virtual conversation among artists and other researchers about how to better understand and connect to our bodies through multiple perspectives. This event features MacArthur Fellows Janine Antoni, who has explored the body through sculpture, movement, and photography for decades; and John Rich, whose work in public health focuses on violence toward African-American men in urban settings.
They will be joined by artists Ingrid Bachmann and Dario Robleto, whose work is featured in the Spencer Museum’s exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.
April 08, 2021
Dario Robleto:
The Art of Scientific Storytelling (Dean's Seminar Series)
We live in a time when the arts and sciences are generally understood to operate in different domains of knowledge production, each using different tools in their search for truth. The now cliched divisions between the fields–emotion vs. intellect, the heart vs. the brain–are tidy illusions which should be vigorously challenged. What is the value of re-establishing this connection and how can the two fields grow from the interaction? More specifically, how can art’s sensitivity to the personal and emotional dimensions of human experience better illuminate the same experiences at the heart of all scientific investigation?
Presented by Northwestern Engineering and the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Artist-at-Large Dario Robleto shared the deep connections between art and science.
April 06, 2021
Body Matters:
A Conversation with Poet Huascar Medina and Artist Dario Robleto
Moderated by Curator Cassandra Mesick Braun, this is the third in a series of conversations with artists in the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, this session features artist Dario Robleto and Kansas Poet Laureate Huascar Medina and focuses on interpretations of the human heartbeat and how scientists and artists record, send, receive, reconfigure, and share data.
February 05, 2021
Dario Robleto:
Religious Guilt
Artist Dario Robleto discusses early visual wave forms that capture emotional states. He tells a story behind one of the prints in his portfolio, The First Time, The Heart (Portrait of Life 1854-1913), about Italian physiologist Angelo Masso and his patient Michele Bertino’s experience with religious guilt.
February 04, 2021
Dario Robleto:
Making as Care
Artist Dario Robleto describes his artistic technique making the portfolio of prints, The First Time, The Heart (Portrait of Life 1854-1913), in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art. The process mimics an aspect of care that is essential to Robleto’s work.
February 03, 2021
Dario Robleto:
Body as Data
Artist Dario Robleto describes his work The First Time, The Heart (Portrait of Life 1854-1913), in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art. In this segment, Robleto describes representing patients with dignity through artistic research and practice, and not as abstract data.
November 01, 2021
Dario Robleto, Pandemic Oral History Project, Archives of American Art, 2020
An interview with Dario Robleto conducted 2020 August 17, by Josh Franco, for the Archives of American Art’s Pandemic Oral History Project at Robleto’s home in Houston, Texas.
October 14, 2020
Smithsonian Lecture Series:
The World of Alexander von Humboldt with artist Dario Robleto
On Wednesday, October 14, 2020, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) presented a lively lecture with Dario Robleto, artist-at-large, Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and the Block Museum of Art.
This is the third lecture in a six-part series that examines the profound impact of Alexander von Humboldt, a renowned Prussian naturalist, and explorer and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century.
January 13, 2020
Artist Talk with Cora Fisher at Brooklyn Public Library
Artist talk with curator Cora Fisher at the Brooklyn Public Library in conjunction with the exhibition Stars Down to Earth: Mary Mattingly and Dario Robleto.
From wonders of the cosmos to urgent questions around habitable futures on earth, this exhibition brings together the scientific inquiries and complex visual systems of these two artists, who, through their art, engage with the world as citizen scientists and ethicists. Dario Robleto will present a lecture titled, Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas.
December 17, 2019
Artist Dario Robleto in Conversation with Anthropologist Marina Peterson
Artist Dario Robleto discusses his newly commissioned video, The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed, on view in the exhibition The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn, with anthropologist Marina Peterson.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019. The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center on Congress Avenue.
November 08, 2019
Dario Robleto:
Witnessing Sound Harvard Art Museum
In this Art Study Center seminar, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Robleto explores the theme of “witnessing” as it relates to auditory and material forms of war testimony.
He presents his research on a rare and little-known audio recording made during a battle in Lille, France, in 1918, toward the end of World War I. It is the first live audio recording ever made on a battlefield.
In conversation with Jennifer L. Roberts, the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and Ethan Lasser, the John Moors Cabot Chair of the Department of Art of the Americas, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Robleto discusses the cultural, material, and emotional dimensions of auditory witnessing and will explain the role this recording plays in his current and future work.
November 04, 2019
The Once and Future Heart Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
A conversation moderated by Jennifer L. Roberts between the artist Dario Robleto, whose exhibition Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century at the Radcliffe Institute rethinks the deep history of cardiological recording, and Doris A. Taylor, a scientist whose work toward regenerative transplantation is reshaping the metaphorical—as well as the medical—prospects of the human heart.
October 19, 2019
Northwestern Engineering Artist-at-Large Program: Dario Robleto
Northwestern Engineering’s unique Artist-at-Large program works in partnership with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art to embed an artist within the McCormick School of Engineering. It is part of the continuing Art + Engineering initiative and a part of the whole-brain philosophy at Northwestern Engineering.
For the past academic year, Dario Robleto, a transdisciplinary artist, has focused on creating a meaningful dialogue with members of Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology, a multidisciplinary center which uses tools and concepts from physics, engineering, and computer science to build new biological systems.
October 10, 2019
Art Papers Live: Dario Robleto
In this public conversation, Dario Robleto and Art Papers editor + artistic director Sarah Higgins address questions about what art can bring to the most speculative spaces of science and technology.
August 08, 2019
Exploring Ethics: Across Art, Humanities and Science
For many artists, researchers, and scientists investigating life—whether working with human remains, studying organ donation, or re-engineering the genetic code—ethical considerations inevitably appear. Questions of consent and personal autonomy, control and access, social responsibility and human rights proliferate across areas of research that work with living subjects. How do professionals in these fields identify, draw inspiration, and respond to ethical questions within their work?
In this program bridging disciplinary divides, artist Dario Robleto; synthetic biologists Josh Leonard, Julius Lucks, and Danielle Tullman-Ercek; and medical anthropologist Megan Crowley-Matoka share specific dilemmas they’ve encountered in their own work—and discuss commonalities and differences that could lead to new ways of addressing contemporary ethical concerns.
November 12, 2018
Dario Robleto:
The Art of Scientific Storytelling
During the Northwestern PhD Seminar Series on November 12, transdisciplinary artist Dario Robleto discussed the deep connections between art and science through his own creative research methods, narrative storytelling, and exploration of sound and sculpture.
September 20, 2018
Dario Robleto:
Ancient Beacons Long for Notice at the McNay Art Museum
Dario Robleto and Rene Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs at the McNay Art Museum in conversation.
July 15, 2018
Cut Paper Flowers Demonstration at SITE Santa Fe Part 1
A short overview of the use of cut paper flowers and wreaths in my practice.
Cut flowers date back to 100 BC with the creation of paper in China. The Victorians popularized the tradition to floriography, the language of flowers, as a method of communicating feelings or sending messages without words. Stemming from his interest in emotions in visual communication and the arts of mourning traditions and Victorian hair wreaths, Robleto has revived the folk art tradition of cut paper flowers in a contemporary context art practice.
July 15, 2018
Cut Paper Flowers Demonstration at SITE Santa Fe Part 2
A short demonstration of my cut paper flower techniques.
Cut flowers date back to 100 BC with the creation of paper in China. The Victorians popularized the tradition to floriography, the language of flowers, as a method of communicating feelings or sending messages without words. Stemming from his interest in emotions in visual communication and the arts of mourning traditions and Victorian hair wreaths, Robleto has revived the folk art tradition of cut paper flowers in a contemporary context art practice.
